Irelands ancient history in a snip

Ireland’s history can be broken up into various periods, or ages. First -Mesolithic period,8000 – 4000 BC, when the first habitation appears on the island. Second – 4000 and 2500 BC was the Neolithic period when the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic eras learned to use stone tools and first discovered agriculture. Next came the Bronze Age, from 2500 BC. When the Celts came along 2000 years later, they instigated the Iron Age. Up until then they had been working with stone. As metal tools were much stronger and longer lasting than stone, it meant that people’s lives became much more efficient and their activities much more effective. This allowed more time for them to take up other, more creative pursuits, and saw the beginnings of artistic development in this civilization.

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